Current Positions
University of Maryland at College Park
2007 –
Postdoctoral researcher
University of Illinois at Chicago
2008 –
Postdoctoral researcher
Education
University of California, San Diego
2002 – 2007
Ph.D. in biology (Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution)
[dissertation abstract]
University of California, Berkeley
2000 – 2002
graduate courses in physics and biology
California Institute of Technology
1995 – 1999
Bachelor of Science with honors, in physics
Financial Awards
American Society of Naturalists
2006
support for travel to annual meeting
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2003 – 2006
support for graduate work (tuition and stipend)
Department of Education Fellowship
2000 – 2001
support for graduate work (tuition and stipend)
D. M. Kothari Prize
1999
award for undergraduate research
Caltech Merit Scholarship
1998 – 1999
support for undergraduate work (tuition)
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, UC San Diego
2004 – 2005
biometry, introductory ecology, quantitative ecology
Graduate Student Assistant, UC Berkeley
2000 – 2002
introductory thermodynamics and electricity & magnetism
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Caltech
1998 – 1999
physics laboratories
Professional Activities
Peer Reviewer
The American Naturalist, Evolution, PNAS, Proceedings B, Systematic Biology
University of Virginia, Department of Biology
2008
EEBio seminar
Silwood Park, Imperial College, London
2008
invited participant in "Evolution, Ecology and Spatial Biology Workshop"
UC Davis Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics
2007
workshop participant
Society for the Study of Evolution / American Society of Naturalists /
Society of Systematic Biologists
2006
meeting talk
Okazaki Biology Conference
2006
invited meeting talk at "The Biology of Extinction 2"
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
2006
working group member of "Conservation priorities: can we have our biodiversity
and ecosystem services too?"
California Population and Evolutionary Genetics
2004
meeting talk
Southwestern Association of Biologists
2004
meeting talk
Publications
Goldberg, E.E., H.J. Lynch, M.G. Neubert, and W.F. Fagan. (in press).
Effects of branching spatial structure and life history on the asymptotic growth rate of a population.
Theoretical Ecology.
[link]
Goldberg, E.E. and B. Igic. 2008.
On phylogenetic tests of irreversible evolution.
Evolution 62:2727-2741.
[PDF]
Goldberg, E.E. and R. Lande. 2007.
Species' borders and dispersal barriers.
The American Naturalist 170:297-304.
[PDF]
Roy, K. and E.E. Goldberg. 2007.
Origination, extinction and dispersal: integrative models for understanding present-day diversity gradients.
The American Naturalist 170:S71-S85.
[PDF]
Goldberg, E.E. and R. Lande. 2006.
Ecological and reproductive character displacement on an environmental gradient.
Evolution 60:1344-1357.
[PDF]
Goldberg, E.E., K. Roy, R. Lande, and D. Jablonski. 2005.
Diversity, endemism, and age distributions in macroevolutionary sources and sinks.
The American Naturalist 165:623-633.
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